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Our recent post about public vaping bans in fourteen Colorado cities (with Greenwood Village likely to become the fifteenth) inspired a Comment of the Day that prompted a slew of additional responses.
In it, a reader argued that smokers and vapers shouldn’t be so effing selfish in public.
Plenty of vapers were unhappy being categorized as rude — and neither were they thrilled with vape pens being blamed for assaulting the senses.
Here’s a particularly vivid example that suggests bad scents in the Mile High City have another source.
Drake Austin writes:
The whole city of Denver smells like shit, how can vaping be more abrasive than metric tons of CO2 in the air?